Bills in the 2002–2003 Session, General Assembly.
Upendra J. Chivukula
Sponsored
Became law2
Provides criminal penalties for unlawful solid waste disposal.
Provides certain physical facility requirements for congregate housing.
Vetoed1
Provides for addition of one member to Delaware and Raritan Canal Commission from Franklin Township, Somerset County.
Passed the General Assembly2
Implements procedures to ensure compliance of State agencies with certain set-aside contract requirements.
Requires posting and distribution of rights of residents in congregate housing facilities.
Out of committee9
Requires DEP to include identification of unused State water supply lands, including the Six Mile Run Reservoir Site, and recommendations for their future use within the New Jersey Statewide Water Supply Plan. *
Authorizes criminal background checks of employees of local departments of health.
Establishes regional lead treatment centers in the State.
Exempts certain persons enrolled in public institutions of higher education from payment of undergraduate tuition at nonresident rates. *
Requires inventory of brownfields sites in the State.
Changes certain documentation required for certification as minority or woman's business for certain State programs.
Prohibits municipal ordinances and homeowners' association rules from limiting the display of American flag. *
Requires the Commission on Higher Education to develop an accelerated bachelor of science in nursing degree program for foreign medical school graduates.
Appropriates $44,031,468 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for planning incentive grants for farmland preservation purposes.
In committee12
Requires all solid waste vehicles to be equipped with a catch device to prevent spillage of liquids onto the roadway.
Provides tuition assistance for children and spouses of New Jersey residents killed in the commission of a bias crime committed in retaliation for the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack.
Authorizes criminal background checks of employees and volunteer members of first aid or rescue squads.
Authorizes criminal background checks of paid and volunteer firefighters.
Expands duties of State Auditor to include conduct of performance audit at request of Legislator.
Requires Garden State Preservation Trust, rather than State House Commission, to review requests for conveyances, disposals, and diversions of preserved open space to other uses.
Specifies that newspaperman's privilege applies to certain information disseminated on internet web sites.
Requires flags of US and NJ to be depicted on "Welcome to New Jersey" signs.
Supplemental appropriation of $10 million to Department of Treasury for the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology to administer certain programs.
Requires State purchase only certain certified vehicles for State fleet; creates process for establishing requirement State purchase only zero emissions vehicles and five-year phase-in of the requirement.
Requires health insurers to cover costs of early intervention services.
Requires municipal prosecutors to review motor vehicle abstracts of DWI offenders prior to sentencing.
Carried from the Senate
Became law4
Changes certain documentation required for certification as minority or woman's business for certain State programs. *
Requires DEP to include identification of unused State water supply lands, including the Six Mile Run Reservoir Site and recommendations for their future use within the New Jersey Statewide Water Supply Plan. *
Prohibits municipal ordinances and homeowners' association rules from limiting display of American flag, yellow ribbons and signs supporting U.S. troops. **
Appropriates $44,031,468 from "Garden State Farmland Preservation Trust Fund" for planning incentive grants for farmland preservation purposes.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 55
Requires certification of persons installing medical gas piping in licensed health care facilities.
Prohibits utilities from assessing late payment charges to certain customers and prohibits CATV companies from assessing late payment charges less than 30 days past due date of subscriber's bill. *
Prohibits use of cell phone while driving school bus.
Permits the establishment of athletic codes of conduct; requires anger management counseling prior to resuming attendance. *
Designated the "Interior Designers Certification Act."
Encourages the recycling and reuse of used computers.
Extends time to file complaint for drunk driving from 30 to 90 days. *
Allows meeting notices of certain public bodies to be available on the Internet.
Establishes "Amber's Plan" to broadcast public alerts concerning abducted children.
Requires certain public utilities to notify appropriate law enforcement official of service shutoffs to multifamily housing unit customers under certain circumstances. *
Authorizes payment of sales taxes by vendors under the sales and use tax and the advertising of "we pay the tax" days.
Doubles the drug enforcement and demand reduction fines imposed for the possession or distribution of certain club drugs. *
Concerns public works contracts and project labor agreements with labor organizations. *
Appropriates $27,242,400 in federal funds for bioterrorism preparedness.
Revises Clean Communities Program and makes available recycling grants to counties and municipalities. *
Places certain juvenile offenders in adult county jails.
Requires the State Board of Education to adopt core curriculum content standards for technology.
Allows certain county or municipal public park access parking lots to be used also for commuter parking under certain circumstances.
Exempts from New Jersey gross income tax the income of victims who died in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against the United States. *
Requires DOE to coordinate sharing of textbooks between school districts.
Requires that owners of age-restricted multiple dwellings notify municipal emergency management coordinator of certain utility disruptions and prepare and maintain annual emergency evacuation plans.
Allows qualified UEZ municipalilites to include UEZ funding assistance in order to be eligible for "Main Street New Jersey" program.
Expands redevelopment agreement program to provide incentives for residential development of contaminated sites.
Removes occupational limitations for use of electric personal assistive mobility devices.
Requires pediatric rehabilitation hospital with 30 or fewer beds be reimbursed 100% of Medicaid allowable reimbursable costs. *
Makes changes in the law concerning the cleanup of hazardous substances.
Establishes corporation business tax credit for certain remediation costs.
Provides additional retirement benefits for certain employees of authorities, boards, commissions, corporations, and other agencies and instrumentalities participating in PERS; permits issuance of refunding bonds to fund benefits.
Provides additional retirement benefits for certain county, county college, and municipal employees; permits issuance of refunding bonds to fund benefits.
Provides additional retirement benefits for certain members of PERS and TPAF employed by school boards, educational services commissions and jointure commissions; permits issuance of refunding bonds to fund benefits.
Allows groups authorized to conduct bingo or raffles to use proceeds for capital improvements in certain instances.
Requires DHS to consider character of staff of adoption agencies as condition of approval to operate.*
Revises law concerning Council on Developmental Disabilities to conform with federal law.
Requires DMVA and DOT to conduct study on feasibility of integrating Civil Air Patrol in State's homeland security initiatives. *
Requires mortgage lenders to include list of financial assistance programs with notice of intention to foreclose.
Prohibits smoking on school buses, even if students are not present.
Establishes procedures for court and DYFS to determine safety of minor child whose child's caretaker is incarcerated. **
Upgrades penalties for theft of identity and the selling, manufacturing, possessing, or exhibiting of false government documents; allows for civil action for victims of identity theft. *
Provides protections for insurance producers doing business with insurers transferring business to another company.
"Michael's Law;" imposes mandatory jail time and rehabilitation for third or subsequent drunk driving offenses. *
Designates highbush blueberry as New Jersey State Fruit.
Provides collective negotiation procedures for school employee contracts, prohibits imposition of such contracts.
Allows part-time State employees and part-time faculty members at public institutions of higher education in this State to purchase SHBP coverage.
"Danielle's Law"; requires certain staff working with persons with developmental disabilities or traumatic brain injury to call 911 emergency telephone service in life-threatening emergencies.
Requires prequalification of certain persons who perform school construction management services. *
Outlines a program to improve highway safety.
Clarifies documentary requirement for distinguished service medal for individual who died while on active duty.
Extends eligibility for State veterans' benefits to veterans of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom.
Establishes a minimum per diem base pay of $100 for members of National Guard called to State active duty.
Provides State-paid health care benefits coverage through SHBP for certain National Guard members called to State active duty for 30 days or more.
Establishes right of person engaged in military service for more than 90 days to cancel motor vehicle lease without penalty.
Requires DEP to replace Standard Industrial Classification System with North American Industrial Classification System.
"Nursing Home Quality of Care Improvement Fund Act." *
Authorizes funding for NJRA brownfield projects from Hazardous Discharge Site Remediation Fund. *
Establishes Office of the Child Advocate. **
Vetoed · 2
Creates study commission on the death penalty. **
Implements portions of federal "Help America Vote Act of 2002." *
Passed the General Assembly · 46
"New Jersey Medical Care Access and Responsibility and Patients First Act." *
Requires HMOs to report number of children screened for lead poisoning under Medicaid program.
Awards good time or work credits to State inmates who successfully complete a substance abuse treatment program.
Establishes hiring preference for children of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty seeking appointment to municipal police forces.
The "Pesticide Use Reduction Recognition Act."
Restores Department of the Public Advocate as principal department in Executive Branch. *
Prohibits managed care carriers providing prescription drug coverage from requiring covered persons to purchase prescription drugs that are in form of double-dose tablets or pills.
Establishes the "New Jersey Civil Rights Act."
Provides for convening of State constitutional convention to reform system of property taxation.
Requires that configuration of toll collection lanes be consistent throughout Garden State Parkway.
Prohibits delivery of unsolicitated credit cards and limits recipients' liability for unauthorized use.
Requires candidates for teacher certification to complete technology training program.
Requires quarterly studies of State Police motor vehicle stops to be filed with Governor and Legislature and be made available to public. *
Authorizes actions for damages for computer information theft.
Prohibits sale or distribution of computer software under certain circumstances.
Authorizes actions for damages for unauthorized use of credit card information.
Establishes limits on resident's hours in hospitals. *
Abolishes Health Service Corporation Conversion Temporary Advisory Commission.
Expands the definition of access device to include ATM bank cards.
Permits master deed of condominium to reflect proportional common and limited common elements interests of each owner as fractions.
Imposes penalties for violations of renewable energy standards by electricity providers.
Clarifies that crime victims' rights must be recognized by all courts in the State.
Requires Division of Taxation to display Senior Gold prescription program information on tax return instructions.
Establishes "Commission to Examine Strategies for Strengthening Familial Bond Between Children and Incarcerated Parents."
Prohibits directed suretyship in connection with public works contracts.
Establishes the New Jersey-Africa Commission.
Requires State Police to maintain and make available certain records for at least 7 years. *
Creates the "Biometric Identifier Privacy Act."
Provides that distance learning network aid for public school districts will continue beyond the 2001-2002 school year and establishes technoloy initiative State aid for nonpublic school students. *
Makes it a fourth-degree crime to provide recommended answers to psychological test of law enforcement officers or candidates.
Requires retail mercantile establishments to notify customers when sell-by date of pre-packaged meat is extended.*
Extends certain benefits to veterans of Operation "Enduring Freedom".
Prohibits sale of certain printers or printer devices with disabling computer mechanisms. *
Prohibits State purchase of arsenic-treated wood or arsenic-treated wood products.
Permits school bus operator to display "Stop When Red Lights Are Flashing" on rear of bus. *
Prohibits certain uses of State funds by contractors and grantees.
Requires that medical gas cylinders, containers and vessels used in health care facilities be color-coded to identify contents.
Directs Adjutant General of DMVA to develop and report plan to provide home-based and outpatient health care to NJ veterans. *
Clarifies procedures for closing active child protective services cases.
Establishes ten-member "New Jersey Clean Elections and Campaign Finance Study Commission." *
Permits suspension of high occupancy vehicle lane operations under certain circumstances. *
Extends military leave benefits for members of the Reserve and National Guard called to federal active duty for extended periods of time.
Excludes housing and subsistence allowances of National Guard members on State active duty from gross income under the gross income tax.
Establishes a program to provide college scholarships to the spouses and children of those killed, missing in action or disabled in Operation Noble Eagle, Operation Enduring Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom. *
Prohibits public colleges from charging tuition and fees to students who are spouses and children of those killed, missing in action or disabled in Operation Noble Eagle, Operation Enduring Freedom or in Operation Iraqi Freedom. *
Requires staff members of residential child care facilities to undergo criminal history record background and child abuse record information checks.
Out of committee · 60
Prohibits electronic printing of certain information on certain sales receipts.
Clarifies provisions of "Electric Discount and Energy Competition Act" concerning municipal electric power systems and rural electric cooperatives. *
Concerns certain boards and commissions under the Division of Consumer Affairs.*
Imposes penalty for leaving child unattended in motor vehicle under certain circumstances.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for hospice and palliative care programs.
Establishes guidelines for operating authorized emergency vehicles in emergency situations.
Revises "Local Bond Law" provisions to simplify refunding bonds and permit electronic bid proposals.
Designated the "Clean Indoor Air Act."
Requires notification of rape care advocate under certain circumstances by law enforcement, prosecutors and medical providers. *
Prohibits possession of tobacco in a public place and its purchase by persons under 18. *
Appropriates $11.105 million from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for grants to certain nonprofit entities to acquire or develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Authorizes an increase in administrative penalties for prevailing wage violations.
Requires superintendent to prepare a list of State Police employment titles and positions and qualifications; thereafter requires postings for certain specially created titles and positions.
Provides for discharge of obligation to repay grants to owners of underground storage tanks under certain circumstances.
Establishes Task Force on Workplace Violence.
Provides compensatory time off for certain essential attendance State employees.
Concerns workers' compensation for occupational disease claims and workers' compensation benefits rates for surviving dependents.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for certain literacy advocacy programs. *
Establishes lead-safe housing grant and loan program and registry plan; makes appropriations. *
Requires humane treatment of calves raised for veal.
Eliminates reduction of the death benefit for participants age 70 or more in the alternate benefit program.
Provides rebates for installation of certain photovoltaic equipment.
Establishes protection of water resources and flood-prone areas as high priorities under open space acquisition program. *
Revises Clean Communities Program and makes available recycling grants to counties and municipalities.
Requires nursing homes to have defibrillator on site and employee trained to use defibrillator.
Concerns NJ Transit's treatment of people with guide or service dogs; establishes Access Link Customer Service Group. *
Requires scheduled revisions to New Jersey Statewide Water Supply Plan; appropriates $1.5 million from "Water Supply Fund" therefor.
Enacts the Interstate Compact for Adult Offender Supervision.
Provides certain reemployed PFRS retirees with choice concerning PFRS membership.
Provides for commencement of short term tax exemptions and abatements as of date of completion of project.
Requires county prosecutors to investigate credible allegations of voter intimidation; requires Attorney General to direct investigation if county prosecutor fails to act. *
Provides early childhood program aid to certain school districts contiguous to Abbott districts.
Provides increased demonstrably effective program aid to school districts contiguous to Abbott districts.
Authorizes an adjustment to school district budget cap in the amount of any increase in special education expenditures for the budget year.
Requires fee-for-service prescription drug benefits for SSI recipients under Medicaid.
Requires DEP to classify reservoirs as category one waters.
Revises property ownership requirements for veterans' property tax deduction and disabled veterans' property tax exemption. *
Establishes "Matthew's Law Limiting the Use of Restraints." *
Appropriates $40 million from Hazardous Discharge Fund of 1986 to Hazardous Discharge Site Remediation Fund for cleanup of contaminated sites; cancels previous appropriation; replaces canceled appropriation with $40 million from 1996 Environmental Cleanu
Permits municipalities to enact ordinance to hold DUI arrestees in protective custody. *
Provides for replacement of members of Legislature when one-half or more than one-half are killed by enemy attack. *
Requires DHSS to prepare booklet on MMR vaccine and availability of blood test to determine immunity prior to administration of second dose. *
Requires backup monitoring device or rear cross-view mirrors on certain commercial delivery vehicles.
Provides that disabled students at institutions of higher education are eligible for reasonable substitution of specific courses required for the completion of degree requirements.
Increases fine for parking in parking space restricted for handicapped persons.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns to Community Food Pantry Fund.
Allows the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology to realize a return on its investments in science and technology companies.
Prohibits advertisements on county and municipal police, first-aid, and fire vehicles.
Establishes lawn watering restrictions; authorizes DEP to adopt water conservation regulations and to reduce water supply application backlog; and requires installation of automatic rain sensor devices under certain circumstances. *
Prohibits nonprofit organizations from disclosing information concerning person under age 18 to third party under certain circumstances.
Revises "lemon law" refund formula for consumers of certain new motor vehicles.
Repeals law creating State poet laureate.
Provides PFRS members in federal or State military service who is injured or killed with disability or death benefits.
Requires award of grants to remediate discharges from home heating oil tanks for application filed prior to July 1, 2007.
Designates State Highway No. 70 bridge over Manasquan River as the "September 11 Memorial Bridge;" appropriates $2,500.
Imposes penalty for contributing to high school student-athlete's loss of amateur-athlete status.
Requires training in diabetes care for certain school employees and use of medical management plans in schools for students with diabetes.
Establishes the Governor's Annual Award for Outstanding Educational Services Professionals.
Establishes Task Force on Child Welfare.
Establishes Joint Committee on Affordable Housing.
In committee · 38
Requires confidentiality of location of domestic violence shelters; imposes civil penalty for knowing disclosure.
"New Jersey Online Privacy Protection Act."
Authorizes and directs DEP to implement Phase II of the California Low Emission Vehicle program in the State beginning in calendar year 2006.
Strengthens the "Law Against Discrimination" in cases involving discrimination in employment.
Mandates testing for lead toxicity as condition for certain school, nursery school, or child care attendance.
Designates "I'm From New Jersey" as the State song.
Exempts fire department personnel and full-time police officers from jury duty.
Enhances coverage of laborers and materialmen under payment bonds.
Provides for legislative review and approval of the State Development and Redevelopment Plan.
Supplemental appropriation of $1,000,000 to DHSS for grant to North Jersey Community Research Initiative.
Directs DHSS to adopt regulations establishing certain minimum nursing staff ratios for general hospitals and nursing facilities and sets limits on medical residents' hours.
Prohibits searches of motor vehicles by police officers without probable cause.
Provides that the State shall pay health insurance premiums for survivors of certain police officers in PERS.
Supplemental appropriation of $690,000 to Division on Women in DCA to fund Grants to Displaced Homemaker Centers program.
Requires posting of warning signs concerning potential of infection, and provision of washing or disinfecting areas, at certain establishments or events where humans may come in contact with animals.
Renames and expands scope of Commission on Racism, Racial Violence and Religious Violence.
Moves division of Criminal Justice investigators from unclassified to cover service of civil service.
Authorizes transfer of development rights as means of implementing State Development and Redevelopment Plan.
Requires emergency first aid and first responder retraining for local law enforcement officers; establishes a "duty to act" in emergency situations for on-duty local law enforcement officers.
Exempts physicians from jury service under certain circumstances.
Requires certain minimum percentage of alternative fueled vehicles purchased by State to be fuel cell-powered vehicles.
Provides State purchasing preference to fuel cell-powered equipment.
Provides for maximum rate for transcript fees.
Provides for annual survey and authorization by DOT for aircraft engaged in aerial spraying.
Requires pharmaceutical manufacturers to disclose gifts, fees and other economic benefits provided to health care providers for promotional and marketing purposes to DHSS.
Requires boards of education to offer elementary school students instruction in gang violence prevention.
Exempts vanpool rentals from domestic security fee imposed under P.L.2002, c.34.
Establishes hiring preference for children of firefighters killed in the line of duty seeking appointmemnt to paid fire departments.
Requires short-term custody, evaluation for student bringing gun to school.
Expands responsibilities of "New Jersey Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect."
Establishes toll-free hotline to report motorists who litter in New Jersey.
Permits local contracting units to award public contracts to certain bidders whose offered price does not exceed price of lowest responsible bidder by more than one percent.
Allows commercial nonagricultural activities to occur on preserved farmland under certain circumstances.
Establishes Historical and Cultural Resources Fund; provides funding through surcharge on entertainment admissions fees.
Establishes the Equity in Education Program in DOE to finance school district initiatives that target segregation.
Establishes "Technology Procurement Study Commission."
Provides for issuance of New Jersey Homeland Security Medals; appropriates $5,000.
Concerns treatment of people with assistance dogs by NJTransit; establishes an ombudsman.